Thousands evacuated to shelters in public buildings after area city suffered record-breaking stretch of heat earlier in summer
Villagers look over a swollen river which floods the crops at a village in Langfang in Hebei province, China. Photograph: Andy Wong/APAmong the hardest hit areas is Zhuozhou, a small city in Hebei province that borders Beijing’s southwest.
She ended up spending the night on the third floor of her building as the water seeped into the first floor, which holds her steamed bread shop. All of the machinery is now underwater. Zhong Hongjun who was the head of a rescue team from coastal Jiangsu province said: “We have to grasp every second, every minute to save people.
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